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1970  John Kleppe, Ph.D., is a professor and chair of the electrical engineering department at the University of Nevada, Reno. Kleppe directs the Lemelson Center for Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and teaches courses in product development. He has won a number of achievement awards, including Nevada Inventor of the Year honors.  •  Ann Pridgen joined the UC Davis School of Education development team as a director of major gifts. Pridgen was a classroom teacher for 15 years, worked in advancement for the United Way of the Bay Area as well as the Girl Scouts, and was most recently a senior vice president with the fund-raising consulting firm Netzel Associates.  •  Ann Veneman, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was named executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

1971  Craig Greene, D.V.M. ’73, received a lifetime achievement award at the North American Veterinary Conference in Orlando, Fla. Greene, a professor at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine, wrote Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat, the most widely used textbook on the subject.  •  Louis Sotelo, J.D. ’76, was appointed presiding administrative law judge for the Fresno office of the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. Sotelo had served in a similar capacity with the board’s Sacramento Office of Appeals since 1992.  •  Mary Kearny Stroube is the author of I Do, Don’t I? (Wit’s End Press), a book designed to help gay and lesbian couples understand the nuances and implications of California’s new domestic partner laws. Stroube is a private practice lawyer specializing in ethics for mental health professionals.

1972  Karen Fowler, M.A. ’74, had her novel The Jane Austen Book Club included in the New York Times Book Review’s list of 100 notable books. The book, published by Marian Wood/Putnam, is a comic novel about a college town book group’s reading of six Jane Austen classics. Fowler lives in Davis.  •  Abe Shragge became director of the Dimensions of Culture program, the core social sciences and humanities sequence at UC San Diego’s Thurgood Marshall College. He is also curator of the Veterans Museum and Memorial Center in San Diego’s Balboa Park.  •  Joan (Mitchell) Thomas died in January 2005 in San Mateo. Ms. Thomas worked in special education in San Mateo County for over 30 years, and enjoyed cooking, traveling, bike riding, musicals and playing an active role in the lives of her two children, Emily and Tyler. Ms. Thomas is survived by her husband, Jerry, her children, her mother and her two sisters.  •  Anastasios “Tas” Papathanasis, M.A. ’76, Ph.D. ’79, died in May 2004 in Simsbury, Conn. He was 62 years old. At the time of his death, Dr. Papathanasis was teaching in the Department of Economics at Central Connecticut State University, where a scholarship has been established in his memory. Survivors include his wife, Katherine.

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